This Morning: Daisy talks about winter gardening tasks
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In a month’s time, spring will be here which means sunnier days, warmer weather and better conditions for gardening. The month of March is when gardeners can really start to get stuck into their gardens. Pruning, sowing, planting, cutting back and having a general tidy are just some of the jobs gardeners can start doing.
For those who are excited to get planting sooner rather than later, Angela Slater, a gardening expert from Hayes Garden World has shared which plants and trees can be planted in March and which vegetable seeds can be sown.
Plants
Angela suggested planting biennials in March which will flower the following year.
She suggested planting bellis, forget-me-nots, wallflowers and pansies.
Summer flowering bulbs should be planted in sunny spots when the soil has warmed up.
Angela suggested planting them in old plastic pots in frost-free and sunny areas.
The gardening expert continued: “These pots can then be popped into any gaps in the border.
“Once they have flowered, they can be removed and overwintered in a frost-free environment or removed from the compost and kept dry.
“The hole the pot leaves in the border can be used to plant a shrub or herbaceous perennial.
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“Plant shrubs, roses, deciduous climbers and trees while they are still dormant.
“Put a spade full of well-rotted farmyard manure or a handful of chicken pellets or blood, fish and bone into the planting hole.”
Vegetables
It’s important to start sowing vegetables as soon as possible or when the weather permits.
Vegetable seeds can be sown indoors or in greenhouses.
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Angela said the conditions need to be checked regularly as some crops need more warmth than others.
Angela explained: “This is the time to be sowing vegetable seeds and placing in an unheated greenhouse or cold frame.
“Check the sowing conditions as some may need to be placed in a heated propagator, such as tomatoes, aubergines, chillies and cucumbers.
“If the weather has warmed up, plant out the vegetable plants, which were sown earlier in the year, under cloches.”
Trees
Planting a tree may seem as though it’s for a large garden or outdoor space.
However, for those with balconies and smaller gardens, a container is all that’s needed.
Angela said with the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee this year, Britons are being encouraged to celebrate by planting a tree for the Queen’s Green Canopy.
Angela said: “Ask your local garden centre staff which small trees would be suitable.
“Ornamental crab apples and rowan are excellent for wildlife, giving flowers in spring and fruit in the autumn as well as glorious autumn colour.
“Japanese maples are ideally suited to planting in containers: position in a sunny sheltered spot out of the hot midday sun.”
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